00:09I died on that floor, but the dragon does not simply die because a man drives a blade into
00:16her heart. I crawled out of death the same way I crawled out of everything else.
00:35I chose the North because it was the only way the killing stopped. I told myself Daenerys
00:42had become something that could not be allowed to continue. The Night King is coming and I
00:51am Aegon Targaryen. I am the shield that guards the realms of men, but the frost creeping across
00:56my skin in the dark. It tells me the story is not finished. It tells me the ending I chose
01:04may not be the ending I get.
01:09I saw Jon standing in the frozen wasteland with frost spreading across his face like the Night
01:16King was not coming for him. But becoming him, the Night King is not marching toward Winterfell
01:21to destroy Jon Snow. He is marching toward Jon Snow to complete something that began long
01:25before either of them existed.
01:34Daenerys died and came back and rode south on her dragon like death was simply an inconvenient.
01:39She is alive. Daenerys Targaryen crawled back from death on a stone floor and arrived at Winterfell.
01:50I am not saying she is wrong. I am saying I have been in rooms where the wrong person wore
01:56a crown
01:56and I know exactly what that costs the people kneeling beneath it. The North remembers and I remember everything.
02:04I have made catastrophic mistakes with magnificent confidence every single time. But the War Council table
02:13has a map on it that shows the Night King three days from Winterfell and the Queen who came back
02:18from death
02:19sitting at its head. I place the crown on her head because the alternative is a leaderless continent facing
02:25a Night King who has apparently decided that exile beyond the wall was never a permanent solution.
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